The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry
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Overview:
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Moritz Baier-Lentz, Partner and Head of Gaming at Lightspeed Venture Partners, offers a candid and lighthearted overview of venture capital in the video game industry. This talk will cover the brief history of game venture capital, and why and how former leaders at Riot Games, Blizzard, and Epic Games raised funding for their new projects. Importantly, we'll get inside the mind of the investor: How do venture capitalists actually make decisions, and how can you use this information to maximize your chances of success?This lecture covers everything from refining your funding story, creating your pitch deck, determining your outreach strategy, valuation and dilution tactics, term sheet negotiation, and pitfalls, to psychological jiu-jitsu for closing a deal. Along the way, case studies of the most successful game startups of 2022 and 2023 will illustrate each point and bring the ideas to life.
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